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Chrome screenshot depicts “nehe.gamedev.net” as opened on Croatian T-Com ISP with their DNS. Black Safari screenshot depicts “nehe.gamedev.net” when using Google’s DNS server.

Reportedly Croatian ISP B-Net also has the same issue.

On B-Net and T-Com, nehe.gamedev.net resolves to 209.62.105.19. Ordinarily it should resolve to 216.185.96.235.

White Safari screenshots depicts what you get when you visit this IP directly. Apparently searchmagnified is not owned by NetworkSolutions because it advertises other registrars.

Could this be some well orchestrated DNS hijack? Or is it just caching gone haywire? (It seems strange that this reputable domain would “revert” to a spyware and ad-troll site and be restored so quickly, but that Croatian ISPs’ DNSs’ would go insane.)

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